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  • Life is a Taxi Ride

    YesMaybeNo
    The worst part of my first chemotherapy-and-cold-cap treatment was the taxi drive home. My session start had been slightly delayed, then unexpectedly it also ran over schedule. Unfortunately, the driver had arrived to collect me well before I was &ls...

  • Number 13

    YesMaybeNo
    Blog post 13. My armchair at the oncology ward for my first chemotherapy session was also number 13. Lucky or unlucky? Maybe both. Because I am and I not superstitious. Just like Stevie Wonder! As I walked in, I thought of how he might have sung &ldq...

  • Crazy Cars, Cancer and Questions

    YesMaybeNo
    Not so long ago, but in ‘my other life’, the one before cancer, I nearly died. It was a close shave (almost literally) but with a car. The exact time of it was at 4 pm on Sunday 14th February 2021: Valentine’s Day. Looking at it pos...

  • Words about Weirdly Wonderful Wonky Wigs

    YesMaybeNo
    I cannot keep my new hair on. No matter how gently I tweak my wig first one way, then another, then another, then another. I have been told that once I have no hair, apparently, the situation will be “better”: the wig should (somehow) att...

  • CT Scan Results – I Only Like Supermarket Scanners Now

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    The results from my first CT scan are back and they were not exactly good. Not unless a lot of findings are considered at least ‘interesting’ (which presumably they are, in a way, to technicians and researchers). Before I had the CT scan,...
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